New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-09
NEW-YORK CITY.

NETWORK CITY.
The annual reunion and dinner OF the Hamilton
College, alumni will take place at the Hoffman House
on Tburadav December 49, John Jay Knox Is piesl-
don't of the organization and A n. Bnoch"ay COT
responding secretary
"Constant Reader In the Church OF the NatvHy'
No 70 Avenue G. there are regular l'rotestam rps
copal services conducted In the German language
The Columbia ,ocge seniors arc considering the
advsability of presenting suitable memorial % inc
college when the class gfaduaes.
Police Inspectors steers and Conln called on the
Mayor yesterday and asked him to preside at the
police captains dinner next month The Mayor sad
be would think about it.
An auction sale of solid silver, plated ware jewery
and oil paintings by the administrators OF the es'ao
of Eliza b. Beckett held yesterday afternoon a'
tho art galleries, No si5 Broadway II. SomcrvIile
was the auctioneer. and the prices were moIerale'
Three French books presented to Robert wash,
ConsulCeneral of the United States al rars, 6y ME-
I0uis Philippe were sold at prices varying from ~
70 eel.
THE TRIBUNE has received So from COhoes, N T., for
the Faith Home for Fallen Women.
Senator Colqutt Of Georgia, will speak before the
American Temperance Union at Chlckerng nan Oh
SUNDAY afternoon " Atlanta and Prohibition
Matthew Rooney, young stone mason employed on
the new Harlem River bridge, fell from the structure
fifty feet TO the ground yesterday he Fractured MS
.kull and broke both his legs, but was living when
an ambulance carried him ~ the hospital nls holo
q
Tho five "buLcon men, James walsh, John Clark
Henry Clark, Henry James and Frank Starr were
discharged by Justice German at Jefferson Market
yesterday They arrested at No l66 ieonardSt.'
ON the complaint of Alfred Uier; OF Ceve,amc' oio'
Ufer unable 10 identify any OF inc piisohcls'
Tine Friendly Sons of ST. Patrick, one of the leading
Irish orcanza ions in the city, considering inc
advisabllty of building club house
The Municipal Council of the Irish National League
has changed its place Of meeting from Eghteenth-st
and Fourthavc. to the more comfortable rooms OF
the tactic society at No II West Twenty eigh4-st
where the next meeting Will be held
Commissioner Coleman who Is treasurer OF inc
John j. Breslin Fund Committee has received two
subscriptions OF $50 each from Mathew Leavy ana
Police Justice Maurice J. Power
The 18th Regiment Athletic Association Will hold
amateur military athletic games and reception al
the armory, Nnth-ave and sixty-secondst. To-
morrow night Tho programme Will includc dashes
and runs a two mile bicycle race. mile walk, tug OF
war and potato and obstacle races: Handsome gold
and silver medals will be presented to the hrst ana
second in each contest, except the tug of war, for
which gold medal will be given to each member OF
the winning team
"Ireing On-on- Hudson. The state Chan'les Ala
Assimilation No 21 University place, is good place
to send toys books, etc, for christmas
One Of the features at the Twenty-thin street
Tabernacle Is book on table at Tie entrance In
which visitors nscrifc their opinions of the paih'he
sCrist on Calvary" Among the warmest tributes OF
sx-Mayor Grace Bishop J. G. Bedel of Ohio; tho
REV j. b. Duly, secretary to Archbishop Corriean
Raion. the celebrated French etcher, and Henry j.
Marquand, Morris n. Jesup, ShdIIos D. H~iil "'iN
Daniel Huntington.
The custom of sending high grade apples to Great
Britain as Christmas presents t. indicated by The
value of this weeks exports, ~ s41 for l4516 bar
rels I1ny cases Of pear 60 to cuba ana ole nun
drod boxes Of cranbeIres 90 to Liverpool
Pacid. produce by steamship Colon yesterday In
clud,,l o1OO cases Of canned salmon, 40 barrels OF
wine and 1900 bag, OF Leans, mostly LIMA
The one hundred and second annual election Of the
General Society of Mechanics and Tr&desmen Oh
Wednesday resulted a. follows President, william G.
Smith; vice president, Robert Ru'ter; second vice
president, Albert c. Bogert; traSurrr, iachafu l.
Davies, and secretary stephen NJ wright
Flour merchants predict another cheap winter for
consumers. AT present Change prices choice family
brands can be retaed at 50 so PEI barrel and useful
grades at "a 25 and 81 10.
1t was reported at Pythagoras Hall yesterday
that the probability Of strike Of hackmen was dmin-
hhng daily.
Dr. Charles F. Meyers, who cOnvlcled In No
vember 1856, and whose conviction has just been
sfarmed by the Court Of Appeals, will be called to
the bar Of General Sessions to lie committed TO serve
Ms term. He was released 81 900 ball by Judge
bonohue pending the decision Of the appeal Detec-
ves who had been looking for Meyers had not iouhd
MIN yesterday.
California keeps her promise of heavy supplies OF
eSisns,; $4,000 boxes added yesteiday TO pre-
vfOus liberal receipts.
william Hasten, age thIrty-hve, a barber, took
rat POISON last evening at his home No 1857 III i'l-
eve. and died after, he taken to the Pres
byteIian Hospital.
man supposed to be John Rahler of PttsbdIg,
Pa billed himself at the Van Dyke House In tho
Bowery yesterday afternoon by taking prtsslc acid
30 was not known at the hole! and reg stored there
about two hours before he found dead In his ROOM